Tesla Slashes Cybertruck Lease Prices As Demand Stagnates The Tesla Cybertruck has a serious demand issue, and as more and more of these stainless steel monoliths to MAGA pile up on dealer lots, Tesla is making moves to get them out the door. The automaker just dropped lease prices for the cheapest Cybertruck, and all-wheel drive versions are getting more incentives like… Read more…

Aston Martin Hopes Vibrating EVs Will Make Drivers Love Its First Electric Supercar Almost every automaker around the world is starting to work on electric cars as the industry rushes to go green. For performance brands like Rimac and Porsche, doing so has come with unique challenges around how they can make their electric supercars stand out in a sea of similarly specced motors, and Aston Martin is… Read more…

Putting A Shifter Kart On Snow Tracks Is The Coolest Way To Go For A Winter Rip Being the kind of kart racer that gets you uninvited from birthday go kart parties is fun and all, but what are you supposed to do in those cold winter months? Not go karting? Blasphemy! Surely there must be some way to keep your skills honed through the winter. Something like a 125-cc two-stroke shifter kart decked… Read more…

These Are The Cars On Sale Now That You Think Will Become Future Classics Car prices are getting intense right now, with new car prices increasing as a result of new tariffs and second-hand cars booming thanks to collectors with more money than sense. If you wanted to make the most of those millionaires spending increasingly large amounts of cash on old cars, what kind of model do you think… Read more…

No Spare? No Problem. Here’s What Every Car Should Carry In Case Of A Flat Not long ago, virtually every single new car was sold with a spare tire, a jack and a small tool kit to allow owners to swap out a flat tire for the spare on the side of the road. That has changed over recent years, with many carmakers dropping the standard spare tire to cut costs and reduce vehicle weight to aid fuel… Read more…

Sedans Aren’t Dead Yet As Kia’s Affordable K4 Outsells The Rest Of Its Lineup Kia buyers have heeded the call to reject modernity and embrace tradition. That’s why the Korean automaker’s little K4 sedan (and the Forte it replaced) just beat every other vehicle the company makes in January sales. Who said the sedan was dead? Not Kia, baby. Read more…

Why Did Ford Sell Jaguar And Land Rover? It’s Complicated By the late 1990s, Ford Motor Company had grown to include a number of other brands the automaker had purchased over the years. In addition to longtime Ford stablemates Lincoln and Mercury, the Blue Oval owned Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin. Those premium brands were placed under a single umbrella called… Read more…

The Jungle Yacht Was The Height Of Luxury Overlanding If you want to head out for an adventure in your car, then there are a few modifications you might want to make to get the most out of the trip. It’s a good idea to have space to sleep, some room for some extra supplies and you might consider a couple of engineering upgrades might make the drive a little easier. You… Read more…

The KTM 390 Adventure R Looks Like The Coolest Baby Rally Bike Adventure bikes are a fantastic way to start your life on two wheels. They let you do a little bit of everything, from dirt trails to race tracks, so you can figure out where you want to go with the rest of your riding career. But ADVs are dweeby, and no new motorcyclist wants to look like some pocket-protector dork… Read more…

Rich Floridians Have Trump To Blame For Palm Beach Airport Restricting Private Jet Takeoffs Palm Beach International Airport was the second-most popular airport for private jetsin the United States in 2023, but all those jet-owning rich folks are facing new restrictions thanks to Donald Trump. Despite over 56 percent or 6.1 million Floridianvoters casting their ballots for Trump, his re-election as a civil… Read more…

Used Toyota 4Runners And Ford Mustang Mach-Es Are Not Cheap To Buy From Hertz If you’re in need of cheap transportation you can score a deal on a used car from Hertz Car Sales, which sells certified pre-owned cars, the majority of which are sourced from rental fleets. I did it years ago as a broke college student when I picked up a Chevy Sonic hatch for under $10,000. Unfortunately, not every… Read more…

What’s The Better Tokyo Car: A Lifted Hummer H2 Or A Lowered Hummer H2? Living in Los Angeles I often feel spoiled by how varied and fantastic the car culture is here. On a simple drive to the grocery store you can see something rare or weird or both; cars and coffee meets would be world-class car shows anywhere else. But LA pales in comparison to Tokyo, which I believe has the greatest… Read more…

Medical Jet Was In The Air For Less Than A Minute Before Crashing, Killing 7 A medical plane crashed in Pennsylvania on Friday just moments after it had taken off from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport. The Jet Rescue Air Ambulance reportedly hit a gas line when it crashed in the Castor Gardens neighborhood, killing all six people onboard and one person on the ground. Read more…

Risk Of Falling Space Junk Hitting A Plane Is Only Increasing Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are large enough to make their way back down to dry land with little warning. On average this happens about once every day, but that rate could rise as private space travel ramps up. Aviation safety… Read more…

China Creates Rocket Fuel In Orbit With Just Carbon Dioxide, Water And Electricity Space is the only place where rocket fuel could be more precious than water. The China Manned Space Agency announced last month that taikonauts on the ongoing Shenzhou-19 mission successfully produced oxygen and ethylene, a key ingredient for rocket fuel. The process was the first-ever in-orbit demonstration of… Read more…

Ford Wants An Off-Road ‘Standalone Supercar’ Raptor Ford CEO Jim Farley wants to turn the company into “the Porsche of off-road.” What does that actually mean? Well, that plan might start with the latest concept Farley floated to reporters: An off-road Raptor supercar, not based on any existing Ford model. Read more…

Audi Already Gives Up On Naming Structure That Confused Everybody Not every idea is a winner, and that’s exactly what Audi realized with its last naming scheme. EVs were represented by even numbers and everything else got an odd number. It confused people and nobody wants to be more confused than they already are. That’s why the automaker has thankfully decided to dump the whole… Read more…

This Brave Soul Is Using A Fisker Ocean As A New York City Taxi Driving a Fisker Ocean in 2025 is a risky proposition. When the cars were new, they were hideously unreliable from the factory. Now, Fisker has gone away and, for the most part, owners are on their own when it comes to repairs and maintenance. Because of that, you’d think they’d try to really take care of their… Read more…

1950s Mercedes F1 Car Becomes Most Expensive Grand Prix Machine Sold At Auction, Second-Most Expensive Car Ever History is priceless only if no one can afford it or it’s not for sale. The first publicly-available 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold for $53.9 million at auction on Saturday after spending decades in the hands of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. The streamlined Mercedes became the most valuable… Read more…

Annoying Car YouTubers, Perfect Features On Awful Cars And Weird Cop Cars In This Week’s QOTD Roundup We all love finding automotive diamonds in the rough. However, sometimes that diamond can be embedded inside a massive lump of coal. Earlier this week we asked what are the standout unique features of cars that aren’t worth aspiring to own. The comments had various answers ranging from basic automated operations to… Read more…